Being and Value and Other Philosophical Essays
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Being and Value and Other Philosophical Essays

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Being and Value and Other Philosophical Essays

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Being and Value collects together fifteen essays by Nicholas Rescher on salient issue in metaphysics, axiology and metaphilosophy. In the way in which they shed new light on significant philosophical issues, these deliberations are emblematic of Rescher's characteristic way of illuminating timeless issues and historical perspectives in a reciprocal interrelationship. The chapter of the book are as follows:
Being and Value: On the Prospect of Optimalism; On Evolution and Intelligent Design; Mind and Matter; Fallacies Regarding Free Will; Sophisticating NaĂŻve Realism; Taxonomic Complexity and the Laws of Nature; Practical Vs. Theoretical Reason; Pragmatism as a Growth Industry; Cost Benefit Epistemology; Quantifying Quality; Explanatory Surdity; Can Philosophy be Objective?; On Ontology in Cognitive Perspective; Plenum Theory [Essay Written Jointly with Patrick Grim]; and Onometrics (On Referential Analysis in Philosophy)

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2013
ISBN
9783110321340
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. PREFACE
  3. Chapter 1BEING AND VALUEOn the Prospects of Optimalism
  4. Chapter 2ON EVOLUTION AND INTELLIGENTDESIGN
  5. Chapter 3MIND AND MATTER
  6. Chapter 4FALLACIES REGARDING FREEWILL
  7. Chapter 5SOPHISTICATING NAÏVE REALISM
  8. Chapter 6TAXONOMIC COMPLEXITY AND THELAWS OF NATURE
  9. Chapter 7PRACTICAL VS. THEORETICALREASON
  10. Chapter 8PRAGMATISM AS A GROWTHINDUSTRY
  11. Chapter 9COST-BENEFIT EPISTEMOLOGY
  12. Chapter 10QUANTIFYING QUALITY(ON THE THEORY OF ELITES)
  13. Chapter 11EXPLANATORY SURDITY
  14. Chapter 12CAN PHILOSOPHY BE OBJECTIVE?
  15. Chapter 13ON ONTOLOGY IN COGNITIVEPERSPECTIVE
  16. Chapter 14PLENUM THEORY[Essay written jointly with Patrick Grim]
  17. Chapter 15ONOMETRICSOn Referential Analysis in Philosophy
  18. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  19. Name Index
  20. ABOUT THE AUTHOR